At least it's not Pretty Green:
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/09/paul-weller-style-rules-clothes-important-culture
https://realstarsarerare.com/
The Feckhams have now branded a Scotch whisky - er - WTF does that pair know about it?
I'll reserve comment on the clothes, but I will say that I'd be a bit embarrassed to say to someone when asked that I'm wearing a jacket by "Real Stars Are Rare". Sounds a bit trendy.
Fashion, luxurious goods and trends have moved from being bespoken by customers, through the cycle of being prescribed by manufacturers, under celebrity endorsement, right around to celebrity spec and manufacture for a very gullible customer-base - in a survey, 70% of celebrity scents go untested by the purchaser "If it's good 'nuff for Posh Spice then it's plenty good 'nuff fer me."
The fact that it is called "Beck's Dutch Oven" is quite beside the point.
Good for him.
Formbs - at last something to get out battleaxes into. Back - at some length - shortly. I take it that you're suggesting that I find some moral attraction in making fortunes out of such methods as: notorious slave-driving, invasion and pillage or importing guano.
Last edited by formby (2014-10-09 17:29:48)
Take your time you two.
Dud be careful of spittle on the keyboard.
formby, don't remove duds rear vision rose coloured glasses too abruptly.
Carry On Formby & Dud.
I thought the lilac dress shirt not bad looking at all, but Weller's disinterest in football is well known and yet, he's willing to say he was getting fashion influences from Georgie Best, which appear like some marketing spin to get the terrace crew on board.
Celebrity endorsements been going on for quite sometime, Louis Armstrong cigars were all the rage back in the late 1920's and the endorsement of whisky brands by tea total actors and other celebs in Japan has been going on since the early 60s.
But I agree with Dud, there is a vacuous nature to celebrity today.
I wasn't much taken with any of the clothes pictured in that news spread of Weller's, Heppie, but I couldn't fault almost anything he was as saying.
Weller is pretty much just another old english rocker over here.
Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2014-10-11 06:44:20)
The thing with Weller, he actually was a style icon during the last years of The Jam and in TSC, but behind that clean living bright young thing exterior of the Capuccino Kid, there was this chain smoking Keith Richards Pictures of Dorian Gray thing going on.
I had a nice chat with the guy that is starting it with Mr Wellar about unlined collars. He runs a menstore on Portabello and although he's very much got his own handwriting, he does stock some ivy friendly stuff in store. He also showed me the shirts for next summer which had a great fabric.
Yep. Just let the clothes speak for themselves, without any goofy embellishments or visible labels. Put the red star on the tag if you must.
You would think in a world over saturated with little logos on the breast of shirts, with Lacoste and Ralph Lauren doing it more ubiquitously and arguably better than all imitators and pretenders, then that would be the one thing that any new fashion house would want to avoid, knowing full-well you are never going to be able to compete at this level.